All-in-one advertising platform AdStage has now secured $8.8m in total funding after raised a series A round featuring Digital Garage and Verizon Ventures.

Liquidation sales management service B-stock solutions has raised $7m in series B funding from SGE and True Ventures.

Grocery and recipe delivery service Plated has raised $15m in a series A round featuring LS and Korea Telecom-backed firm Formation 8.

The Rocket Internet-backed online food marketplace has now raised $108m since it was founded in 2012 and has entered the market in 40 countries.

The room listings marketplace secured $475m at a $10bn valuation, showing once again the extraordinary growth potential for companies willing to disrupt existing industries.

The media company's business information subsidiary has led a $4.5m series B round for Skymet Weather Services to fund expansion from India.

The Phillipines-based telecommunications company has taken a 10% stake in Rocket Internet and the two plan to partner on mobile payment ventures.

DreamIt has introduced the 12 graduates of its three month incubator at the DreamIt Demo Day in New York yesterday.

OPT plans to invest in adtech, edtech, e-commerce and cloud services start-ups over three years as it grows its portfolio to 100 companies.